Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1892 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 32
... Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very ...
... Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very ...
Pagina 34
... Dryden to Durfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single , had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror . The wise and the pious caught the alarm ...
... Dryden to Durfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single , had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror . The wise and the pious caught the alarm ...
Pagina 40
... Dryden . The con- cluding verses are these : - " This said , no more remained . The ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ...
... Dryden . The con- cluding verses are these : - " This said , no more remained . The ethereal host Again impatient crowd the crystal coast . The father now , within his spacious hands , Encompassed all the mingled mass of seas and lands ...
Pagina 41
... Dryden's ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and “ Doris , ” that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expres- sion might be mended , and the most striking part of the character had been already shown ...
... Dryden's ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and “ Doris , ” that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expres- sion might be mended , and the most striking part of the character had been already shown ...
Pagina 46
... Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a Prologue . The wits easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had , besides ...
... Dryden , who pursued him with great malignity , lived long enough to ridicule in a Prologue . The wits easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had , besides ...
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